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🍯 NEW: Raffles’ pitcher #plants trap insects in digestive #fluid that is both viscous and highly elastic.

#Research showed the fluid’s elastic force exceeds its viscosity by a factor of 10,000, so struggling #insects thin the liquid yet remain held. The team then found pitchers recover their fluid levels within two or three days after #flooding or #drought.

👉 https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/how-pitcher-plants-trap-their-prey

#pitcherplants #carnivorous #botany #physics #nepenthes #ecology #science #ants #biology #nature

🍯 NEW: Raffles’ pitcher #plants trap insects in digestive #fluid that is both viscous and highly elastic.

#Research showed the fluid’s elastic force exceeds its viscosity by a factor of 10,000, so struggling #insects thin the liquid yet remain held. The team then found pitchers recover their fluid levels within two or three days after #flooding or #drought.

👉 https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/how-pitcher-plants-trap-their-prey

#pitcherplants #carnivorous #botany #physics #nepenthes #ecology #science #ants #biology #nature

🍯 NEW: Raffles’ pitcher #plants trap insects in digestive #fluid that is both viscous and highly elastic.

#Research showed the fluid’s elastic force exceeds its viscosity by a factor of 10,000, so struggling #insects thin the liquid yet remain held. The team then found pitchers recover their fluid levels within two or three days after #flooding or #drought.

👉 https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/how-pitcher-plants-trap-their-prey

#pitcherplants #carnivorous #botany #physics #nepenthes #ecology #science #ants #biology #nature

🍯 NEW: Raffles’ pitcher #plants trap insects in digestive #fluid that is both viscous and highly elastic.

#Research showed the fluid’s elastic force exceeds its viscosity by a factor of 10,000, so struggling #insects thin the liquid yet remain held. The team then found pitchers recover their fluid levels within two or three days after #flooding or #drought.

👉 https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/how-pitcher-plants-trap-their-prey

#pitcherplants #carnivorous #botany #physics #nepenthes #ecology #science #ants #biology #nature

🍯 NEW: Raffles’ pitcher #plants trap insects in digestive #fluid that is both viscous and highly elastic.

#Research showed the fluid’s elastic force exceeds its viscosity by a factor of 10,000, so struggling #insects thin the liquid yet remain held. The team then found pitchers recover their fluid levels within two or three days after #flooding or #drought.

👉 https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/how-pitcher-plants-trap-their-prey

#pitcherplants #carnivorous #botany #physics #nepenthes #ecology #science #ants #biology #nature